Friday, 21 June 2013

The numerous cute
fabrics in our workroom make it hard to choose the perfect combination for a
project; besides the children’s choice does not always match our own preferences.
Consequently we made more than 1 version of the ‘Jacoba’ dress for both daughters.

Today we
present Jade in the red version.

The green fabric is very nice Japanese fabric
with a touch of retro. We discovered this fabric on the cute site of Fifi Jolipois.

We bought a
small piece that was used for a previous project and by the time we wanted to
order a next piece of the fabric, Fifi Jolipois ran out of stock in the desired
color. A far too long online search brought me here, the same fabric in various
colors.

Louka in her
teal dress with red accents; the red Kokeshi fabric was also bought at Fifi
Jolipois.

Despite my
arguments that puffed sleeves are more for small children, I was disallowed to
leave out the sleeves in the first version of the dress. For the second dress I
got permission and the sleeves were cut but not attached.

Thursday, 20 June 2013

This title assumes
a blog post about thesefamous pants. Nevertheless this blog post regards ‘Jacob’,
a little retro shop in Ghent. We live in a so-called shopping paradise;
still I prefer shopping in my hometown. This summer we will surely visit the shop
and hopefully find children’s clothes to spend some money on.

As I patiently
have to wait a couple more weeks before I will be able to shop back home, I
spoiled our youngest with a homemade version of this ‘Jacob dress’.

We bought
this dress last summer in Jacob and meanwhile the dress became far too short for
jade.

The original dress
is vintage, swirls around perfectly, and fits Jade perfectly; but is made out
of uncomfortable fabric.

It is her absolute
favorite dress –she even sometimes wears it to go to bed!

Thus, the
youngest daughter got a Curl Up version of the Jacob dress.

When her older
sister saw the dress, she insisted on getting an identical copy for herself.

And … what we
usually avoid for our twin boys –dressing them identically- we exceptionally did
it for the girls; they got identical dresses!

The details
of the Curl Up-Jacob-dress match the details of the original vintage dress. The
actual pattern was drawn by me. I used the basic perfect fit bodice from our girls
as basis and added sleeves and a collar. The skirt is a 2/3 circular skirt. The
dress swirls just like the original one and the fabric we used is more
comfortable. Mission accomplished!

For all the
Jacob-pants-lovers … the pattern finally got assembled and we are working on
our ownversion of the pants, some more patience and then you get pictures of
the result!

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

The
last two pieces in the 'hoody-series' were created. So now also the boys have
their own hoody.

They
each choose a different color Viking fabric, but since the hoodies are finished
they both claim they choose the blue fabric.

Anyway
we temporary solved that issue and they proudly present you their new hoodies.

Handstand
is the preferred pose of all our kids at the moment!

I
used the same pattern and procedure to make the hoodies as described in the
previous hoody posts. In answer to the questions we got, adding a zipper to
the pattern does not complicate the sewing process it makes it even easier to
make the hoody reversible.

Behind the scenes

Curl Up is established by a mother of five, who lives in the Middle East. She attempts to combine her passions for rugby and sewing, with cooking, motherhood, Mr Curl Up and his artificial grass.
Mrs Curl Up is a perfectionist to the letter who has to be reminded on a regularly basis that the view halfway to the top of the mountain might already be stunning.